Shaheed’s reports and the annual UN resolutions are all meticulously researched records of recent human rights violations, and for that their authors should be applauded. The same can be said of reports produced by Ahmad Shaheed, the UN-appointed Special Rapporteur on Iran, or the annual “name and shame” Iran resolution that Canada leads at the UN General Assembly. It takes a special myopia to write at length about Rafsanjani without mentioning any of those facts. He is known for his vast corruption, implicated in the assassination of dissidents abroad, and wanted by Interpol for his role in the bombing of a Jewish community centre in Argentina. Rafsanjani is, for those that do not know his biography, the ultimate regime insider. He writes more perceptively than most on Iran, and yet manages to refer to Ali Akhbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Iran’s former president and current presidential hopeful, as “an avowed reformist” and “an outspoken supporter of the Green Movement.” The historical revisionism leaves one flabbergasted. In short, to get to a democratic future for Iran, it is essential that we revisit its painful past.Īs an example of the amnesia, take a recent article by Doug Saunders, columnist for the Globe and Mail. We must battle this amnesia and demand accountability for crimes committed long ago. If there is any hope of reversing Iran’s culture of impunity, and setting it on a path towards respect for human rights, this trend must change. Whether it is UN or NGO reports that reveal a deepening human rights crisis, or analysis by Western pundits of an upcoming presidential election no one believes will be free or fair, the emphasis is always on the latest catastrophe, with scant attention to how we arrived here in the first place. What makes it even more disheartening is that a historical amnesia pervades much of the commentary on Iran. Licensed to and published by Idea Factory International, Inc.Reading about Iran these days is grim work. ©2019 IDEA FACTORY / DESIGN FACTORY All rights reserved. Touching certain areas of the image will play dialogue of feelings that couldn’t be previously expressed.
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